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# Loans

Last month
September 2023
# Mortgages
Minister calls on Pepper to be 'absolutely clear' with customers about new fixed mortgage interest rate
Mortgage holders with non-banks and vulture funds can now switch to one of the pillar banks, says Minister McGrath.
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Sep 12th 2023, 1:04 PM
This year
2023
# Loans
Outdated information put on over 20,000 credit reports due to Central Bank error
Information was retained on the Central Credit Register for longer than it should have been.
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Aug 21st 2023, 6:54 PM
Last year
2022
# Personal Loans
Personal loans up significantly for home improvements, while decreasing for car purchases
The figures were released by the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland.
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Aug 18th 2022, 8:17 AM
All time
# Loans
Fraud websites offering fast loans target vulnerable people ahead of Christmas, gardaí warn
The website will often suggest that it is regulated by the Central Bank Of Ireland, even though it is not, and provide a fake Irish address.
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Dec 2nd 2021, 9:41 AM
# unauthorised firm
Central Bank issues warning about four unauthorised firms offering loans
It’s a criminal offence for an unauthorised firm to provide financial services in Ireland that would require Central Bank authorisation.
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Mar 11th 2021, 4:07 PM
# liteway loans
Central Bank issues warning to 4 unauthorised firms offering loans
The Central Bank also issued a warning notice to an unauthorised investment firm.
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Dec 16th 2020, 5:30 PM
# Central Bank
New Central Bank rules mean moneylenders must place warnings on high interest loans
Ads from moneylenders will now have to contain warnings about high interest rates, as well as encouraging consumers to look for other options
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Jun 8th 2020, 4:55 PM
# Mortgages
Taoiseach meets with five major banks to discuss Covid-19
The government says that the banks have agreed that anyone availing of a mortgage break can now extend the loan term.
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May 11th 2020, 7:06 PM
# Liquidity
€1bn worth of supports announced for businesses, with a push to get companies to sell online
The supports aim to help with liquidity issues experienced by businesses.
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Apr 8th 2020, 4:59 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Should moneylenders include 'tobacco-style' warnings in ads for high-cost loans?
Warnings often appear in the contract, rather than the ad.
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Jul 30th 2019, 9:30 AM
# Vulture funds
Taoiseach says he didn’t realise his mortgage could be sold on by his bank when he took it out in 2003
In an interview with TheJournal.ie this week, the Taoiseach said he understood the intent behind Sinn Féin’s No Consent No Sale Bill.
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Apr 19th 2019, 6:10 AM
# Housing
Councils no longer operating loan scheme to help struggling homeowners with repairs
There is a disparity across the country with some local authorities operating the schemes while others stopped years ago.
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Mar 16th 2019, 9:00 PM
# Housing Crisis
New State lender to give cash to small developers to build homes for first-time buyers
The new state lender aims to deliver 7,500 homes within five years.
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Jan 28th 2019, 1:33 PM
# Vulture funds
Mortgage-holders caught up in PTSB loan sale to be invited to tell of the turmoil it has caused
Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty said a full committee session should be dedicated to the loan book sale.
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Sep 4th 2018, 6:40 PM
# sell off
Calls for Dáil to be recalled after PTSB sell thousands of home loans to vulture fund
The bank sold its controversial Project Glas loan portfolio to a so-called vulture fund for around €1.3 billion.
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Aug 1st 2018, 9:57 AM
# sell off
PTSB sells thousands of home loan mortgages to vulture fund
A total of 7,400 are owner-occupier mortgages, while 3,300 are buy-to-let properties.
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Jul 31st 2018, 8:10 PM
# Overcharging
18,000 overcharged business accounts: Ulster Bank admits some customers complained five years ago
In a recent review the bank found it did not have the right five years ago to raise the rate of interest for for these customers.
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Jun 19th 2018, 4:32 PM
# warning
Irish economy is growing substantially but Brexit 'poses major threat'
High levels of household and public debt are also concerning, the Central Bank has said.
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Jun 15th 2018, 12:10 AM
# Credit Report
You can now view your own credit report for loans over €500
The register was formed as part of the EU/IMF bailout programme.
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Mar 20th 2018, 6:06 PM
# Vulture funds
PTSB chief refuses to appear before Finance Committee next week over loan sale
The bank recently announced it is to sell off a €3.7 billion portfolio of non-performing loans, including mortgages 14,000 private dwelling homes.
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Feb 24th 2018, 7:35 AM
# vultures
Dealing with a vulture fund - how these families have coped
With tens of thousands of mortgage holders potentially facing vulture funds, we spoke to some people who’ve been through it already.
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Feb 24th 2018, 12:05 AM
# Vulture funds
Minister concedes homeowners who engaged with PTSB may not have deals honoured
PTSB, which is 75% State owned, has been defending its plan to sell off a book of non-performing loans.
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Feb 21st 2018, 3:44 PM
# fire sale
'You're throwing people to the vulture funds': Government criticised for taking no action to halt PTSB loan sale
PTSB, which is 75% owned by the State, states it is selling off non-performing loans.
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Feb 15th 2018, 1:52 PM
# pentire
'I wouldn't want to go up against them alone': Vulture fund ramps up taking homeowners to court
Pentire Property Finance is a subsidiary of US investment giant CarVal.
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Feb 12th 2018, 12:05 AM
# interest free
Irish Prison Service paid out €500k in loans to inmates over three years
The loans were given for a number of reasons, including the purchases of games consoles.
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Nov 14th 2017, 4:14 PM
# no loans
'No ifs, no buts, no education cuts' - Students from across the country march through Dublin
The government is being accused of “kicking the can down the road” on education funding.
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Oct 4th 2017, 8:01 PM
# car trouble
Bank ad ordered to be changed after child shown wearing puffy jacket in car seat
AIB was found to be in breach of the advertisers’ code.
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Sep 22nd 2017, 6:10 AM
# YOUR BEST PRICE
'Why were only three bidders selected?': Call for investigation into Nama sale of Project Tolka
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath has called on the C&AG to investigate the sale of a Nama portfolio.
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Apr 14th 2017, 7:20 PM
# Criticism
Bank of Ireland 'Fomo' loans for students branded as 'irresponsible'
The loans were only offered to a select number of students at Dublin City University.
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Feb 20th 2017, 11:01 PM
# Great Irish Sell Off
'Out of the blue, we got a letter to say our loans had been sold to a vulture fund'
Housing has become the biggest issue for hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland.
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Jan 9th 2017, 12:05 AM
# vultures
'The Central Bank is in the dark' over how many business loans vulture funds own
Michael McGrath said that the situation was “incredible”.
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Jan 2nd 2017, 12:15 PM
# In the red
Ireland's local authorities are over €4 billion in debt
Minister Simon Coveney says he doesn’t believe that any of the loans are unsustainable.
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Jul 25th 2016, 6:15 AM
# ibrc
New law to grant extra powers to allow the Siteserv inquiry get on with work
The ongoing investigation into the IBRC and the Siteserv deal has been held up by strict issues of legal confidentiality.
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Jun 9th 2016, 6:06 AM
# Newtownmountkennedy
One of the country's top golf courses, Druids Glen, has gone into examinership
Druids Glen says despite the court proceedings it will be a case of “business as usual” at the course.
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May 13th 2016, 8:58 PM
# sponsored by kbc
Here's everything you need to know before you look at getting your first mortgage
We’ve got you covered.
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Feb 25th 2016, 4:38 PM
# COYBIG
Football fans offered loans of up to €30,000 to pay for Euro 2016 trip
One TD has warned that the loans are reminiscent of “the economic euphoria” of the boom.
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Dec 17th 2015, 6:06 AM
# Repayment
AIB is going to start paying back some of those billions to Ireland
Shareholders will vote today on a number of measures.
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Dec 16th 2015, 7:29 AM
# Explainer
What on earth is this Siteserv story all about - and why is it back in the news?
Denis O’Brien, IBRC and an obsessive TD are all part of tangled web of controversy.
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Nov 11th 2015, 7:30 PM
# Courts
'Very good man' who stole almost €1.7 million from Credit Union jailed
The total net loss amounted to €453,300 as he was repaying debts he already had with the banks.
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Nov 11th 2015, 6:08 PM
# Loans
The IBRC gave A LOT of commercial borrowers really good interest rates
A parliamentary question has revealed that as many as 40% of commercial loans had interest rates of less than 2%.
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Jun 26th 2015, 5:34 PM
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